Enough of food, let's talk TV. I am enjoying Togetherness (Thursdays on Soho). I find the kooky cast of characters, one of them played by New Zealander Melanie Lynsky, both comforting and discomforting because they are very real. A line from the show has been with me over the past couple of weeks: "Just fake it: Do you see this smile? I am dead inside." This advice, given to someone having to take part in an event they had no interest in, applies to me and the golf, rugby, cricket, cricket, cricket, CRICKET that is on TV right now.
Which brings me back to food and the people around me who are being good sports and letting the family eat dinner in front of the box more nights than not. My brother Warren, who will have that cricket on as you read this, has made up some chicken dinners that are easily eaten on your knee in front of TV. The green chicken curry and chicken rice bowl can both be served in bowls and eaten with a fork, which ticks my list of requirements for such meals but finger food works too - serve plenty of paper towels with his hot wings and herbed chicken, bacon and pineapple burgers.
We have also pulled together some country-appropriate snacks for other times of the day.
